Highland Tech holds its lottery (list of students picked)

Of the 668 students who applied to get into Highland School of Technology, just 145 earned spots in the class of 2017.

Amanda Memrick

Of the 668 students who applied to get into Highland School of Technology, just 145 earned spots in the class of 2017.

The school uses an annual lottery to pick students who will attend. A computer program shuffles the names of qualified applicants.

Each high school receives a certain number of seats based on its enrollment. Once those seats are gone, no more students who would attend that high school can get into Highland.

Once selected, students have to remain Gaston County residents, earn at least a C average in eighth grade and keep a good attendance record and good standing in conduct in order to earn final acceptance over the summer.

Here are the list of names of students in the lottery:

This list is the preliminary Class of 2017 at the Highland School of Technology. These students must meet the following criteria to receive a final acceptance letter in June 2013: